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  • A Good Time

    by Gerard Benson ...
    Gerard Benson was born in London and lives in Bradford, where he was made the city's poet laureate in 2008. His children's books have won the Signal Award and been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.A Good Time is his fourth collection for grownups, along with a number of anthologies, including the Poems on the Underground series, of which he is a founding editor. He was the first ever poet-in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poems on the Underground

    This wonderful new edition of Poems on the Underground is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton, Blake ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Dancing By The Light of The Moon

    Over 250 poems to read, relish and recite

    Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion'Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness' DAME JUDI DENCHIncludes an updated chapter of poems to bring you hope and happiness this year_______A POEM CAN . . .Comfort · Challenge · Be a fri... ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

    100 Men on the Words That Move Them

    A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse….It’s plain fun” (The Wall Street Journal).*Grown men aren’t supposed to cry…*Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men—distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Mersey Sound

    Restored 50th Anniversary Edition

    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'The Mersey Sound is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form'. With this modest brief, The Mersey Sound was conceived and first published in 1967. An anthology which features Roger McGough's ... Read more

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  • Staying Alive

    real poems for unreal times

    by Neil Astley ...
    Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. The Staying Alive trilogy of anthologies have introduced many ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Les Dawson's Joke Book

    by Les Dawson ...
    The first-ever joke book from one of the UK's best-loved comedians, Les Dawson's Joke Book is a must for any fan of this perennially popular comedian. Collecting together the highlights of his 26-year career across radio and television, from his early days on Opportunity Knocks to Cissie and Ada. A lover of language, Les was a secret poet and was fond of high culture, often undercutting his own ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Nation's Favourite

    Twentieth Century Poems

    This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Allan Ahlberg, and subjects from all avenues of life - war, family life, love, death, religion, the countryside, animals and comedy - the whole breadth of the nation's life during the 20th century is ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • England, Our England

    An anthology and miscellany of everything an Englishman should know:From Austen to Wordsworth,Jerusalem to the Scout’s Honour, Kings and Queens of England to Land of Hope and Glory, Savile Row tailors to Jermyn St Shirt Makers, Tying a Windsor knot to making a pot of tea, Victoria sponge to fish pie and the rules of cricket to Gilbert and Sullivan operas ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Winning Words

    Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life

    Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's most magical moments. From William Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, our most popular and best loved poets and poems are gathered in one essential ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Feminine Gospels

    A Powerful Poetry Collection of Female Identity

    In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions – and revisions – of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions, and spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect – as ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life

    An Anthology of Emotional First Aid

    Edited by Daisy Goodwin ...
    Prozac has side effects, drinking gives you hangovers, therapy's expensive. For quick and effective relief -- or at least some literary comfort -- from everyday and exceptional problems, try a poem. Over the ages, people have turned to poets as ambassadors of the emotions, because they give voice and definition to our troubles, and by so doing, ease them. No matter how bad things get, poets have ... Read more

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